Brick



JOSEPH", ensign, or :aooKvItLn; connnorroor.

' BRICK.

, Application.filed'December 19, 1 23. Serial No.1 681,493.

To all whom it may 00m 7 Be it known that I, .Josmur'BneAN, a' citizenor the Unlted States, residing atv Rockville, in lthe county of Tollandand size, proportions, strength and'durability.

State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements inBricks, of" which the following is a specificatlon. 5

This invention is a brick for the bulld'in of masonry walls and thelike, and has for :The-recess is disposed centrallybetween the sidewallsof; the brick and has one end its object to reduce the cost ofmanufacture and at'thes'ame time preserve all-of the essentialcharacteristics of a brick such as The reduction in cost is accomplishedby omitting some of the material from each brick, and the essentialcharacteristicsof the brick are preserved by reason of the location ofthe omission.

In the drawings, 7 v V Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brickembodying the features of 'thepresent invention,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of a well constructed of bricksof the present invention arranged so as not to show any mortar in thejoints between adjacent bricks,

j Figure 3 is a cross sectional view on the the line 33 of'Figure 2,

Figure 4c is a view similarto Figure 21but showing another arrangementof the bricks with mortar showing at the joints between adjacent bricks,

Figure 5 is a cross sectional line 5'5 of Figure 4, and V Figure 6 is atop plan view ofa wall portion showing the manner of using the brickswith a minimum amount of mortar. I

The brick of the present. invention is shown in Figure 1 of the drawingswherein l designates the back of the brick from which rise thelongitudinal side walls extending the entire length ofthe brick, while 3designates an end wall connecting the side view on the -walls 2. It willof course be understood that the brick of the present invention is an.

integral rectangular brick molded in any conventional or preferredman'nenand may have the usual standard dimensions orspef cial dimensionsas may be desired; "Theele ments of the brick, which have beendesignated 1, 2 and 3 define a rectangular recess which hasonelongitudinal open side and one open end. The amount of brick material omitted is about one-third of the amount of materialcommonlyemployed in the for .mation of a standard brick, and therefore i thewall brick.

- the cost of producing the presentbrick'is' I E-T materially lessthanthat of a standard brick wherein the brick is continuous throughoutallof lts dimenslons.

I Statedinanother way, the brick "ofth'e present invention isrectangular in form V and. is provided with a rectangularrecess thecubical area of whichyis" substantially one-third of the cubical areaofthe brick.

openingthrough one end offthe brick, the

:One manner of laying of thepres I,

ent invention in a wall has been'shown in F igures2 andr3, wherein itwill'be seenthat the bricks are placed one upon the other the mortardesignated a being placed with-' in each recess so as to bond togetheradjacent bricks. In this arrangement, the lower 7 face of the back ofone brick rests directly.

upon the top of the next lower brick and closes the open top of'therecess therein, the

and 3, it will be noted that no mortar appears in the joints between thebricks thereopposite end of the recess being closedby provided by theopposite endof the by producing what is commonly called a ,90

dry wall.

In- Figures 4 and5 there has been shown a wall whereinthe recessin eachbrick is at the under side thereof and the mortar 6 shows in the jointsbetweenadjacent bricks I atthe ends, bottoms and tops thereof, In 9laying the bricksin this manner, mortar is placed upon the top of abrick in theusualfl 1 manner, and then another brick-isplaced downwardlyupon the mortar. in the usual manner and pressed into place, a" smallpor- 100 tion of the'mortar rising into each. recess. Inthisarrangement. dead air spaces-areformed throughout the wall.

In the, arrangement shown in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings the brickseventually 105 become substantially solid bricks in that the recess ineach brick is filled with mortar, and a beam may be supported upon thetop of a brick at any part thereof. s

In the arrangement shown" in Figures 4 and 5 the arch shape of the brickrenders it substantially as strong as a solid brick, and

5 with the open side of the recess uppermost, 1 a

a beam can be supported on the top of brick at any portion thereofWithout danger of crushing the same. Furthermore, the end Wall 3 of eachbrick is in Vertical alignment With the end Walls of the bricks in" thesame vertical alignment, and therefore this portion of the Wall isidentical with an or- '1. A building brick comprising a rectan-' gularbody having aback, opposite duplicate longitudinal side Wallsand anlntegral end Wall, said parts defininga rectangular recessopeninggthrough one'face of the brick and through one end thereof, theinner end of the recess being closed by the end Wall of the brick andthe cubical area of said cubical area of the entire brick.

2. A building brick comprising an inte-' gral rectangular brick having arecess located centrally between the longitudinal sides of the brick,one end of the recess open a space being substantially onethird'of theing through one end of the brick and the 7 other end of the recessterminating short of the opposite end of the brick, the cubical area ofthe recess being substantially onethird of the cubical area of theentire brick.

3.'A building brick comprising a solid rectangular back, oppositeduplicate longi- ;tudinal solid side Walls integral With the back andextending throughout the'length thereof, and a solid end Wall integralwith the back and the sidewalls, the back, side and end walls defining arectangular recess having a cubical area of'substantially one third thatof the entire brick, side recess opening through one end of the brickand also opening through the face ofthe brick opposite the back thereof.

JOSEPH REGAN.

